The Resilient Mind - Before You Commit to 2026, Hear This - Sadhguru

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

Sadhguru is the founder of the Isha Foundation located in Coimbatore, India. The foundation operates an ashram and yoga center that specializes in education and spiritual practices. An accomplished yoga teacher since 1982, Sadhguru is also the author of several New York Times bestsellers, such as Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy and Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny. He is also a frequent speaker at international events and forums.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠This episode is brought to you in partnership with Sadhguru. Follow their YouTube channel by visiting: https://www.youtube.com/@sadhguru/featured🌍 The Resilient Mind Podcast is a proud member of 1% for the Planet — building resilient minds and a resilient planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to before you commit to 2026, hear this with SAD Guru. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. Your dreams, goals and desire, aspirations, it's good that you spend a little more time on it and see will this really mean something to you even after 20%? 25 years, 50 years, if you are in your deathbed, will it still mean something to you? You must look at it.

Whatever you're aspiring for, whatever you're dreaming of, whatever goals you have set, will it really mean something because most of these goals are traps? They just traps. You get in, it's only one way, street, you can't turn back. I want you to look at this because many of them are older than you. than you, you asked them what they dreamed of at 18, they're fortunate it didn't come true. Yes or no? If everything that you desired and dreamed came true in your life, could you live with it?

Fortunately, many of those things got filtered and never came true, isn't it? So it will be very good if anybody of your life. if they want to decide and fix the goals of their life, it will be very good if they take a break from all influence that's around them. Social influences, family influences, other influences. Widdraw somewhere. That's why an ashram. Widrow somewhere.

Sit down, meditate. Bring yourself to a certain level of clarity and joy. When you're very happy and clear, you must decide. Not in desperation you set goals. Desperate goals that you said will mean a lot to you at that moment. Tomorrow morning you look, you don't know why you're tangled up with it. So it'll be good. If you're fixing your life, it's best that you do it when you're very, very peaceful, happy and clear-headed, isn't it?

Not influenced by anything around you. Simply by yourself. Sit and decide what is it that you really want to become in your life. What is it that will be of enduring value for you, not for somebody else, for you? And you don't have to build a personality for that. You strive for that. The necessary persona will come. You must understand what a personality is.

The word personality comes from the word persona. Persona means in Greek, or in Latin, I'm sorry, is a mask. This is a mask that they used to use in old theatres. Now, the same people will be playing many roles. Let's say Ramayan is happening. You have to play Rama's role also and Sita's role also and Lakshman's role also. For everything, there's one mask. You hold this mask and speak like Rama, keep it down.

Hold this mask and speak like Sita, keep it down. Hold this and speak like Hanuman and keep it down. This is how the plays were done. So it is those masks which were referred to as persona. So personality means you held a mask and mask got stuck to your face. You couldn't pull it out. That means you have a personality. Personality is something that people are trying to develop because they have no sense of being.

Instead of the real thing, you are trying to concretize a fake thing. If you are in touch with your being, why do you want a personality? Not necessary. You can be a different kind of personality in different places. You are actually already. Or are you stuck with one personality. Some people are. People who are simplistic in their head have only one personality.

Others have different personalities in different areas of life, isn't it? If you had seen me before like 1999 that is before the consecration of Dianalinga I was a completely different kind of person okay

to such an extent everything about me was so different well before that things happened that was beyond me but this was conscious at that time I was single-minded

towards a certain purpose I was in a certain way so after I never thought I will live beyond that, but somehow things happened. Then I thought, okay, now that the work is over, let me change my personality completely. To fulfill that, I had acquired a certain kind of personality. Now that it's over, I thought, let me change it. And I told people around me.

See, I'm going to change my personality. Don't be shocked. I'm still the same guy. There I said, no problem, this, this, this. I said, just hang on. because things will change. Everything about me will change. The way I operate will change.

The way I speak will change. The way I dress will change. The way I do. Everything will change. There's no problem. We know you. We love you. We this, this.

I said, that's okay. Hang on tight. Because when things change, people fall off. A lot of people fell off. Because they couldn't believe. Where is that person that they knew? That person just evaporated. you know

this is a new person they can't identify with this new person I told them and changed in spite of that they fell off so many of them so many of them who were very dear to me

and very close to me they fell away because I changed so dramatically and I told them I'm going to change because one face of work is over now it's time to change my personality the way I look the way I dress

the way I speak, the very way I am, everything about me. I even change what food I like. I changed my personality, so I thought I'll change my food also. So personality is something that you have taken on, but you have become so unconscious about it that you think it's real. You're asking how to develop. That means you're making it up, right? another word for developing is making up, isn't it?

You're making it up. Make it up whichever way is suitable for your kind of activity. But you must be able to keep it down. If it gets stuck to your face, then it becomes misery. Then all suffering will come to you. You can take on any kind of personality. But when you want to keep it down, you must be able to keep it down. There was a sage.

He was so wise. people went to him and crowds gathered then the king went to him and the king saw such a wise man should be in his coat so he told the sage you must come and become my chief minister because a wise man like you shouldn't go away sitting under a tree you must be useful for the people the sage said to see that's fine but i have a condition You must give me a room in your palace where I will spend every day one hour. You should never peep into that room. You should never ask me what it's about.

You should never break into it. Nothing. This room should be left unexplored by yourself, your servants, your secret agents and everybody. King, that's not a problem. What's the problem with me? You want your room, why do I want to look into your room? Take it. Then whenever any important meeting is to come,

this man who's sage now who's become a minister, so he's wearing appropriate clothes for the palace. But he goes in to this room and locks himself for one hour and comes out. A few months and years passed, but then after that king's curiosity, you know, you know. They even got us to Mars. He wants to know what the hell is it doing inside.

So pure rumor started all around, oh, he's doing something, he's got somebody inside, maybe he's an enemy agent, he suddenly landed here, what is it doing there? What is it doing there? Everybody, the whole palace, started buzzing around with, what is it doing in this room? Everybody wants to see what's in the room,

but it's always locked, he goes in, spends time there and comes out. Especially when something important is to be done, he goes in. All kinds of rumors happened. So, one day, King couldn't hold it. King asked this man, I want to see what's in that room. He said, well, there's a promise you've given me. If you break the promise, I will leave. So he contained it.

He doesn't want to lose the man. He's too wise. And then his other courtier started talking, how can you allow this? We don't know what's happening inside. It could be dangerous. It could be this. It could be that.

One day when he was not there, they broke open the door and went inside. They looked around. The room is empty. No furniture. No nothing. Just empty room. They looked nothing. What does he do here?

Then in one corner they saw very, you know, worn-out clothing hanging there and a begging bowl. They went. They couldn't make out what this is. Then he came in. He said, well, you wanted to see UFC. The king asked, what do you do here? He said, whenever I want to make any important decision, I come here, wear my worn-out clothes and sit with a begging ball.

bowl clearly you know that I don't want to be caught up with the with all the things of the palace I want my wisdom not to be lost in these clothes and in this jewelry and in this stuff so I come here wear those clothes sit with my begging bowl make the decisions and then come out now you've broken the promise and he left so this is what meditation is for you every day when you sit you You strip yourself down. You don't have to do anything about it. If you sit there simply, see, anything that's made up needs constant support from you, isn't it? See, suppose you tell a lie.

It needs constant support to keep it up, isn't it? But if something is true, you can even forget it. But it's still there, isn't it? You understand what I'm saying? If something is true, even if you forget it, it's still there. No problem. But if it's a lie, you have to keep it up. Your personality is a lie.

Your being, your existence is the truth. You don't have to keep this up. This will be anywhere there. What you make up for the sake of the society to function in the society, you need a certain kind of makeup. You must be able to keep it down. If you are going to bed fully made up, and something wrong with you.

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